Paying for a selfie: Rome starts charging for Trevi Fountain
People posed in the sunshine in front of the Baroque masterpiece after paying the two-euro ($1.68) fee to access the now largely crowd-free area next to the basin.
"Tell me it's not worth two euros! It's worth thousands if not millions, it's beautiful!" 41-year-old Polish tourist Agata Harezlak told AFP.
The backdrop to the most famous scene in Federico Fellini's film "La Dolce Vita", when actress Anita Ekberg takes a dip, is top of the list for many visitors exploring the Eternal City.
But in the past...